Influences of various treatments of pulps, such as beating, recycling, sizing and solvent extraction, on dynamic wettability of single pulp fiber and a handsheet from the pulp fiber were discussed from the measurement of contact angle to water at short time intervals.
Beating had little influence on contact angle of softwood bleached kraft pulp fiber and the handsheet.
Recycling of the pulp was performed by a sequence of defibration, dewatering and drying at 80°C for 24 hours five times repeatedly. Remarkable increase in contact angle of kraft pulp fiber was observed. Also recycling caused delay in the rate of decrease of contact angle of the fiber with time. On the other hand, contact angle of the handsheet decreased with repetition times of recycling.
Extraction of thermomechanical pulp with atcoholbenzene was fairly effective on decrease in contact angles of both single fiber and handsheet.
Sizing with alkylketene dimer increased contact angle of kraft pulp fiber, but there was no significant difference in contact angle when the amount of sizing agent added were varied from 0.05 to 0.17% . However, contact angle of the handsheet much increased with sizing.
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